Travis Jones, who prosecutors say shot another man over the score of a basketball game in Rosebank, surrendered at District Attorney Daniel Donovan's office in St. George early yesterday morning. He was arraigned yesterday afternoon on attempted murder and other charges.

On Feb. 20, the Advance ran a story featuring Donovan's 10 most wanted fugitives, and since then, the district attorney said his office has received seven separate tips regarding seven of the suspects on the list.

"Today, Travis Jones, after seeing his picture in the paper, surrendered to our office," Donovan said, noting that Jones' lawyer had reached out to negotiate the surrender days earlier, on last Wednesday afternoon. "When you think about it, it's been a short period of time."

Donovan credited Jones' arrest to the Advance article, calling it "a great cooperative effort between the media and law enforcement."

Jones, who goes by the nickname "Pooch," had been on the run since June 1, 2008, when prosecutors say he shot Carleak Gibbons, a city Sanitation worker, during an argument over a basketball game at the Kaltenmeier Playground on Virginia Avenue in Rosebank.

"He [Jones] was supposedly keeping the score, and he wasn't keeping the score right," Gibbons said in a phone interview with the Advance yesterday morning. That's what led to the argument, Gibbons said.

So, prosecutors say, Jones left, then came back in a black Dodge Charger a few minutes later with a friend -- and a gun.

Jones fired a half-dozen shots, prosecutors allege, hitting Gibbons once in the stomach.

"He shot me because of some dumbness. Little kid -- he didn't know what he's doing," said Gibbons, who's now 33.

Jones' lawyer, Alison Aplin, said at his arraignment in state Supreme Court in St. George yesterday that her client had no idea he was wanted in connection with the shooting. His mother, she said, believed police simply wanted to talk to him.

"The minute his picture hit the paper... he voluntarily surrendered like a gentleman," she said in court.

Assistant District Attorney Paul Capofari countered that Jones' family "was very obviously informed that he was wanted, and for nearly three years, he avoided the police."

Donovan told the Advance, "At one point, in his mother's home, police went and arrested his brother, thinking it was him."

A grand jury indicted Jones in connection with the shooting on Dec. 29, 2008, charging him with second-degree attempted murder, first- and second- degree assault, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and first-degree reckless endangerment.

Judge Leonard P. Rienzi set Jones' bail at $250,000.

Gibbons said yesterday it took him about a month and a half to recover from the shooting.

"I'm good. I'm a strong individual," he said. "I take care of myself. I healed up."

When asked about Jones' surrender, Gibbons said he wasn't too concerned.

"That don't stop my day," Gibbons said. "Let justice do what it do. ... I have no beef. I forgave."

On Monday, the Advance spotlighted another fugitive from the most wanted list, Peter Fam, who blew off a re-sentencing in a 2006 sex case after he was re-arrested in connection with a 2008 stabbing.

Anyone with information about his or any of the remaining fugitives' whereabouts is asked to call the Richmond County District Attorney's Tip Line at 718-556-7030. Tipsters can remain anonymous.

Donovan's office is offering a $1,000 reward for any tip that leads to an arrest.